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What was also amazing about it, is they would use your old address when you received welfare payments, but not update this from other systems such as the tax sy
by zethex 3y ago
What was also amazing about it, is they would use your old address when you received welfare payments, but not update this from other systems such as the tax system. This meant that the debt letters were being sent to the wrong place, and then eventually handed over to debt collectors to chase. Credit scores were impacted because of this.
- zgluck 3y agoSo actually a matter of lack of unique id (and a properly registered address), then. Huh.
- llamaLord 3y agoNo you're not understanding. There is a unique ID, in this particular context it's called a CRN (customer reference number). Every person who receives social security in Australia has one and they're fixed for life. The lack of unique ID has nothing to do with this. This was government blatantly attacking poor people through willful mismanagement of an automated debt inferment system in conflict with the legal process through which that debt should have been calculated. They 100% knew what they were doing and did it deliberately.